1. (n.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

2. (n.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

3. (n.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

4. (a.) Boldness; impudence; brass.

5. (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

David's victory Over the Giant... He had a helmet of bronze on his head and wore a bronze breastplate of scales which weighed one hundred and fifty pounds. He also .../.../sherman/the childrens bible/davids victory over the giant.htm

Fifth Tractate. On Potentiality and Actuality.... Thus bronze is the potentiality of a statue: but if nothing could be made out of the bronze, nothing wrought upon it, if it could never be anything as a future .../.../plotinus/the six enneads/fifth tractate on potentiality and.htm

Of the Sedition of Antioch.... indignity, then, in addition to the usual deeds which a mob is wont to do when it is seizing an opportunity for disorder, they pulled down the bronze statue of .../.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/chapter xix of the sedition of.htm

The Riot... Round the chair of state at the back of the apse, in which the Count of the East often sat with his assessors, rose the bronze and marble statues of the .../.../gathering clouds a tale of the days of st chrysostom/chapter ii the riot.htm

The Consulship of Eutropius... It's a sort of bet. But if we don't guess, I'll go to the brass-market and get you a little bronze""'. ... I shall get my bronze"whatever it is to be. .../.../chapter xxiv the consulship of.htm

Sundry Objections or Excuses Dealt With.... in opposition to our proposition of "similitude being interdicted," "Why, then, did Moses in the desert make a likeness of a serpent out of bronze?" The figures .../...//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/on idolatry/chapter v name objections or.htm

A Question for Communicants... You may erect a bronze column, or you may engrave a record of it upon brass in the church. The column will get sold for old bronze.../.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/a question for communicants.htm

Of the Sacred Rites Introduced by Faunus and Numa.... As infant boys believe that every statue of bronze is a living man, so these imagine that all things reigned are true: they believe that statues of bronze.../.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xxii of the sacred rites.htm

Whether the Angels are Incorruptible?... Roundness can never be taken from the circle, because it belongs to it of itself; but a bronze circle can lose roundness, if the bronze be deprived of its .../.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the angels are incorruptible.htm

The Nations of the North-East... Semitic names. The crown-prince came himself to Jerusalem, bringing with him costly vessels of gold and silver and bronze. His name .../.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iv the nations of.htm

Brazen (42 Occurrences)... The word translated "brass" in the King James Version would be more correctly renderedbronze, since the alloy used was copper and tin (Exodus 27:4). In some .../b/brazen.htm - 25k

Grating (6 Occurrences)... 4; Exodus 38:4), called also "the net" (Exodus 27:4 f), and "grating of brass" (Exodus 38:4), was that reticulated casting or wrought work of bronze which, in .../g/grating.htm - 10k

Copper (55 Occurrences)... electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. 2 .../c/copper.htm - 27k

Molten (41 Occurrences)... mol'-t'n, or (yam mutsaq, yam hanechosheth): This was a large brazen (bronze) reservoir for water which stood in the court of Solomon's Temple between the .../m/molten.htm - 22k

Movable (8 Occurrences)... 2 Kings 25:13 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break .../m/movable.htm - 9k

Battle-bow (2 Occurrences)... joined together (Hom. II. iv.105-11), and sometimes of bronze. In Psalm 18:34 the Revised Version (British and American) we find .../b/battle-bow.htm - 9k

Battlebow... joined together (Hom. II. iv.105-11), and sometimes of bronze. In Psalm 18:34 the Revised Version (British and American) we find .../b/battlebow.htm - 8k

Bible Concordance

Bronze (146 Occurrences)

Mark 7:4 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)(WEB WEY RSV)

Revelation 1:15 His feet were like silver-bronze, when it is white-hot in a furnace; and His voice resembled the sound of many waters.(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 2:18 "To the minister of the Church at Thyateira write as follows: "'This is what the Son of God says--He who has eyes like a flame of fire, and feet resembling silver-bronze.(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues, did not even then repent and leave the things they had made, so as to cease worshipping the demons, and the idols of gold and silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear, nor move.(WEY RSV NIV)

Revelation 18:12 cargoes of gold and silver, of jewels and pearls, of fine linen, purple and silk, and of scarlet stuff; all kinds of rare woods, and all kinds of goods in ivory and in very costly wood, in bronze, steel and marble.(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 4:22 Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 25:3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:11 and thou hast made fifty hooks of brass, and hast brought in the hooks into the loops, and hast joined the tent, and it hath been one.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 26:37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. (See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:10 and its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:11 Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 30:18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 31:4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 35:5 'Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, silver, brass,(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 35:16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 35:24 Every one that did set apart an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia-wood for any work of the service, brought it.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 35:32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:18 He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 36:38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:5 He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles. Numbers(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:8 He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:17 The sockets for the pillars were of brass. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:29 The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 38:30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 39:39 the bronze altar, its grating of brass, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 6:28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 26:19 and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,(DBY NAS NIV)

Numbers 4:13 "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.(See NIV)

Numbers 16:39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 21:9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,(See NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:23 Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.(See NAS NIV)

Joshua 6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."(See NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 6:24 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.(See NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 22:8 and spoke to them, saying, "Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers."(See NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 16:21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 17:5 And he had a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he was clothed with a corselet of scales; and the weight of the corselet was five thousand shekels of bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 17:6 And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 17:38 And Saul clothed David with his dress, and put a helmet of bronze upon his head, and clothed him with a corselet.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 8:8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 8:10 and Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and smitten him; for Hadadezer was continually at war with Toi. And he brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 21:16 And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new armour thought to smite David.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:35 Teaching my hands for battle, And brought down was a bow of brass by mine arms,(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 4:13 Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:16 He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:27 He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:30 Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports: beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:38 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin. (See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 7:47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 8:64 The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 14:27 King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 16:17 King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 25:7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.(See NAS NIV)

2 Kings 25:13 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 25:14 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 18:8 From Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much brass, with which Solomon made the bronze sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 18:10 and he sent Hadoram his son to king David to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and smitten him; for Hadarezer was continually at war with Tou; he sent also all manner of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 22:3 David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 22:14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh one hundred thousand talents of gold, and one million talents of silver, and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you may add to them.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 22:16 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.(See NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 29:7 and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents.(See RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 1:5 Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 1:6 Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 2:7 And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and experienced in carving, besides the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.(DBY RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and whose father was a man of Tyre, experienced in working in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in byssus, and in crimson, and for doing any manner of engraving, and for inventing every device which shall be put to him, besides thy skilful men, and the skilful men of my lord David thy father.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:1 Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:9 And he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors thereof with bronze.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all its vessels, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out. (See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:13 (for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)(WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 7:7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat.(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 12:10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and they hired masons and carpenters to renew the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought in iron and bronze, to repair the house of Jehovah.(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.(See NAS RSV NIV)